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Politics, Citizenship and Equality Area - Description
The ¨Politics, Citizenship and Equality" area at the IDEAS Foundation focuses primarily on research and political analysis, particularly in matters related to the promotion of liberty as well as true and effective equality for citizens. Paying special attention to the progress of political, economic, cultural and social participation, we generate proposals that contribute to debate, reflection and political action.
The staff of the area follows several lines of work:
• Political thought: new challenges and opportunities for progressive thinking in the current context.
• Electoral behavior: voting patterns and trends.
• Civic engagement: mechanisms that complement and enhance the quality of representative democracy, with special attention paid to the role of information and communication technology.
• Equality and social inclusion: the realities, necessities and possible improvements to social justice and the eradication of discrimination aimed at achieving more equality and social cohesion from an economic and social standpoint.
External collaborators with academic expertise are actively involved in these studies which are subject to methodological scientific rigor combined with the application of quantitative techniques and qualitative social investigation. Additionally, contributions from multidisciplinary working groups are integrated as a key element in various stages of research.
Politics, Citizenship and Equality Area - Objectives
The "Politics, Citizenship, and Equality" area conducts studies and reports that contribute to policy design with the following objectives:
• Help the power structure become more proportional in order to ensure more rights, freedom, and equality to the citizens.
• Provide ideas on the matters of democratization, participation and social mobilization, incorporating the possibilities offered by information and communication technology.
• Propose measures to improve citizen’s rights and living conditions, that in addition to being innovative, rigorous and imaginative, are politically applicable to Spain’s reality as well as to the world.
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08.06.2012
The director of the IDEAS Foundation, Carlos Mulas and the President of the Spanish Political Science Association of (AECPA), Juan Luis Paniagua, signedan agreement whereby the PSOE’s think tank will take an active part in the XXII World Congress of Political Science.
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30.05.2012
At the symposium “15-m: a year after” Fernando Vallespín, Kerman Calvo, and Mariano Fernández Enguita have agree on urging the 15-M Movement to settle the dilemma of trying to find a balance between the highest level of political representation and efficiency when taking decision.
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08.03.2012
One of the major social advances achieved in the last years has been the advances made for the effective equality between men and women. But, this March 8, the International Women’s Day, is marked by the threat of significant regressions in this area.
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02.03.2012
Rubalcaba warns that the adjustment policies, the liberalizations and privatizations of the Washington consensus which were implemented in Latin American in the 90s and are intended to be transferred to the EU “only brought about unemployment, inequities and social unrest”
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02.03.2012
During the plenary session of political leaders of the I Latin American Progress Conference organized by the IDEAS Foundation, Zapatero affirmed that globalization “is already our play ground and we must work to make it multipolar and not unipolar, which China, India the USA, Europe and Latin America playing the role of regional leaders.”
Madrid, March 2, 2012
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16.05.2013
No podemos negar todos los avances producidos en España en materia de igualdad y reconocimiento de los derechos de la mujer. Atrás quedaron los años de la minoría de edad para las mujeres, pues a golpe de Transición consiguieron salir de los márgenes de la historia para convertirse en dueñas de su cuerpo y de su mente.
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09.05.2013
Si tuviéramos que describir con brevedad la situación económica de nuestro país, podríamos decir que la inversión privada se halla frenada por la falta de expectativas ...
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14.06.2012
El Huffington PostFelipe Gonzalez, former president of Government and member of the Global Progress, proposes in this article what would happen if European´s leaders look at the reality of the EU through the eyes of ordinary citizens.
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20.04.2012
El PaísCarlos Mulas, director of the IDEAS Foundation, proposes in El País three elements that should be part of a fourth way for recovering the social hegemony of the center-left.
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Observatorio de la Socialdemocracia
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30.11.2010The cosmopolitan ethos is in bad shape, yet transformational politics overwhelmingly depends on our ability to govern on many different levels.
Today, crises are everywhere. The financial and economic crisis of 2008 spiralled into a fiscal crisis, and the subsequent debt crisis has enveloped the eurozone in an outright fight for its survival. Conventional wisdom suggested that neoliberalism and its market believers would suffer most. Instead, it is the crisis of social democracy which stands out while the public realm is under huge pressure. What is going on?sharing:
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23.11.2010Social democrats must dig deep into their own rich history of empowering political thought, whilst looking beyond Europe’s shores to a world of new ideas.
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